Can’t Concentrate
Porn actors apparently train for three core competencies over their two-year career. Stay hard. No acne. Moan like the neighbors should hear it. That’s the entire skill set.
In actual German bedrooms, it’s quieter and more one-sided. When someone makes noise, it’s her. He stays silent. Polite about the whole thing.
I’ve spent some time thinking about why that is. Two questions, mainly. Why do guys go basically mute except for that pathetic noise at the very end? And why do girls feel obligated to provide this entire vocal performance throughout?
The first one I can answer. You need to concentrate. It’s not simple—there’s a lot to manage physically and mentally, and the whole time your brain is running through this massive library of images and memories and whatever else keeps you focused. Any sound you make kills that concentration. Moaning and focus are incompatible.
The second is harder to parse. Maybe girls need to breathe that loudly because the physical effort is genuinely exhausting. Maybe it’s all performed—just automatic feedback for the guy on top. Maybe it’s some mixture of both. I honestly don’t know.
What’s clear is that moaning works when it’s real. When you oversell it, it doesn’t. Fake moaning is worse than silence. And somewhere in all this, girls are probably wishing we’d make more noise while we’re wondering why you have to announce the whole thing to the rest of the building. Could be we’re just good at what we do. Could be you want the woman in the next apartment over to absolutely know you’re having sex. Probably both.